Linux-audio-announce December 2008

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[ANN] KMidimon 0.6.0 and KMetronome 0.9.0 released

by Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas

KMidimon is a MIDI monitor for Linux using ALSA sequencer and KDE user interface. Temporary web site: http://kmetronome.sourceforge.net/kmidimon/ KMetronome is a MIDI metronome with KDE interface, based on the ALSA sequencer. Web site: http://kmetronome.sourceforge.net They are licensed under the GPLv2. New releases available: KMidimon - 0.6.0 KMetronome - 0.9.0 This release is the first one after the migration from KDE3 to the newer KDE4 and Qt4 frameworks. Also, a new common library providing ALSA sequencer services has been developed and included in both programs - early snapshot, to be statically linked. The library itself will be officially released next year after more testing, documentation and polishing. Download the sources from: https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=134956 Happy new year. Regards, Pedro

15 years, 10 months

Rivendell v1.2.1

by Fred Gleason

On behalf of the entire Rivendell development team, I'm pleased to announce the release of Rivendell v1.2.1. Rivendell is a full-featured radio automation system targeted for use in professional broadcast environments. It is available under the GNU General Public License. Changes in this release include (from the NEWS file): *** snip snip *** This is a maintenance release of Rivendell. The following issues have been corrected: Several errors in handling metadata values in file imports have been corrected, and support for detecting Ogg metadata tags added. Fixed a bug in RDAirPlay that could cause a segfault when loading a log over an existing log. Database Update: This version of Rivendell uses database schema version 170, and will automatically upgrade any earlier versions. To see the current schema version prior to upgrade, see RDAdmin->SystemInfo. As always, be sure to run RDAdmin immediately after upgrading to allow any necessary changes to the database schema to be applied. *** snip snip *** Further information, screenshots and download links are available at: http://www.rivendellaudio.org/ Cheers! |-------------------------------------------------------------------------| | Frederick F. Gleason, Jr. | Chief Developer | | | Paravel Systems | |-------------------------------------------------------------------------| | "No, `Eureka!' is Greek for `This bath is too hot!'" | | -- Dr. Who | |-------------------------------------------------------------------------|

15 years, 10 months

Renoise 2.0 - Release Candidate 2

by Conner Bw

Renoise RC2 contains a new demo song, tweaks and bugfixes. This is the last version before Renoise 2.0 goes gold. This version is "free as in beer" and looking for Linux testers outside the registered user base. Download: http://www.renoise.com/download/renoise/ Announcement: http://www.renoise.com/board/index.php?showtopic=19082 What's new: http://www.renoise.com/new/ About Renoise: Renoise has a different approach to making music compared to conventional sequencers, called Tracking. Tracking comes from the demoscene that pushes technical limits to show off coding skills, art, and music beyond what is thought possible. Renoise was originally written from code by the late Arguru. In 2000 the new Renoise team started to take tracking software into a new standard of quality, enabling users to make music on par with mainstream sequencers, while still keeping the proven design principles of years gone by. With Renoise 2.0 a generation of oldschool trackers and contemporary musicians looking for something "different" have reason to celebrate. Track on! -- http://www.renoise.com/ _________________________________________________________________ Show them the way! Add maps and directions to your party invites. http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowslive/events.aspx

15 years, 10 months

Call for audio & software work !

by Forwind info

Hi, Apologies for cross-posting. Forwind invites musicians/software developers/artists who write custom audio software to submit both a piece of music created with the software and the software itself for inclusion in an audio and software compilation due to be released mid 2009. This compilation will strive to present both the software and audio on an equal footing. Design of the end package will be in the very capable hands of Paul Finn from Fitzroy & Finn (www.fitzroyandfinn.co.uk). The intentions are for this to be a substantial physical release (Book, double CD etc - details have yet to be finalized.) Software may but not necessarily need to include patches/code from PureData/Max MSP, Supercollider, Chuck, CSound, Faust, CLM, Snd-Rt, VSTs, Ladspa's, Processing, bespoke sound apps (C/C++, python, ruby, fortran, assembly!) et al ... Please send submissions to Forwind Comp. 36B Bodney road, London, E8 1AY, U.K Deadline 2009/03/31 more details @ www.forwind.net/home/call_for_work Nice holiday all ! Best regards, Conor J Curran

15 years, 10 months

Qtractor 0.3.0 (fluffy doll) released!

by Rui Nuno Capela

Merry season greetings! After a very long quarantine period, and while after the last Flirty Ditz romance, this pet has calmly bumped a few more steps ahead. Please welcome, my Christmas present to y'all, Qtractor 0.3.0 (fluffy doll) has been released! Same old intro follows: Qtractor is an audio/MIDI multi-track sequencer application, written in C++ on top of Qt Software's Qt4 framework, having JACK and ALSA as its main infrastructures and Linux as native and exclusive platform. Specially suited to the lone-wolf composer, arranger and (re)creative music-maker personal home-studio, it still hopes to evolve as a fairly featured desktop audio/MIDI workstation or at least, a prototypical part of it ;) Release highlights: * Paste-Repeat command. (NEW) * Punch in/out recording. (NEW) * Session/project template support. (NEW) * Current track auto-monitoring. (NEW) * MIDI buses now supporting multi-timbral instrument plug-ins. (NEW) * Individual clip gain/volume, normalize and audio/MIDI file export. (NEW) * Copy/paste to desktop environment clipboard. (NEW) * and many, many fixes and new bugs ;) Website: http://qtractor.sourceforge.net Project page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/qtractor Downloads: - source tarball http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.3.0.tar.gz - user manual http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.3.0-user-manual.pdf Weblog (think upstream support): http://www.rncbc.org License: Qtractor is free, open-source software, distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2 or later. Features: - Multi-track audio and MIDI sequencing and recording. - Developed on pure Qt4 C++ application framework (no Qt3 nor KDE dependencies). - Uses JACK for audio and ALSA sequencer for MIDI as multimedia infrastructures. - Traditional multi-track tape recorder control paradigm. - Audio file formats support: OGG (via libvorbis), MP3 (via libmad, playback only), WAV, FLAC, AIFF and many, many more (via libsndfile). - Standard MIDI files support (SMF format 0 and 1). - Non-destructive, non-linear editing. - Unlimited number of tracks per session/project. - Unlimited number of overlapping clips per track. - XML encoded session/project description file. - Point-and-click, multi-select, drag-and-drop interaction (drag, move, drop, cut, copy, paste, delete, split) - Unlimited undo/redo. - Built-in mixer and monitor controls. - Built-in connection patchbay control and persistence (a-la QjackCtl). - LADSPA, DSSI and native VST plug-ins support. - Unlimited number of plug-ins per track or bus. - Plug-in presets, programs and chunk/configurations support. - Audio/MIDI clip fade-in/out (linear, quadratic, cubic). - Audio/MIDI clip gain/volume, normalize and export. - Audio clip time-stretching (WSOLA-like or via librubberband), pitch-shifting (also via librubberband) and seamless sample-rate conversion (via libsamplerate). - Audio/MIDI track export (mix-down, merge). - Audio/MIDI metronome bar/beat clicks. - MIDI clip editor (matrix/piano roll). - MIDI instrument definitions (a-la Cakewalk(tm)) - JACK transport sync master. - MMC control surface enabled. - Configurable keyboard shortcuts. Change-log: - Almost complete rewrite of the plugin configuration and parameter initialization logic. - MIDI bank/program selection is now taken into account on plugins initialization and replication. - Fixed initial parameter values for native VST plugins. - Track form plugin lists are now properly (re)initialized when track type changes. - Generic plugin forms now have the option to show/hide the parameter widgets through the new "Params" button. - New auto-monitor toggle option (menu Track/Auto Monitor): the current selected track is now set on monitor and MIDI channel omni-mode automagically, as a convenient workflow feature (kindly suggested by Holborn). - MIDI clip editor Tools menu is not disabled anymore when there's no selection, drop-down menu items are instead. - Make all recorded clips to honor either the punch-out or play-head accumulated position; resolve all pending MIDI sequence note events on record stop/close. - Major silent move: audio plugins chain are now applied in a pre-fader/meter basis as is usually implied from the mixer strip layout ie. signal flows from the top to the bottom. - All MIDI buses may now have plugins inserted so that multi-timbral synth/sampler plugins get driven to their fullness. - MIDI track plugin's dedicated audio output bus may now be effective, as it seems, good old master audio output bus was being used, no matter what. - Paste-repeat command has been introduced, now allowing to replicate and concatenate the clipboard contents over the time-line, with a given repeat-count and optional period (see menu Edit/Paste Repeat... on the main and MIDI clip editor windows). - Normalize tool on MIDI clip editor got rewritten from its previous brain dead, useless and utterly wrong operation. - All time offsets and lengths are now zero-bar/beat based when displayed in the BBT (bar.beat.ticks) format. - MMC STEP gets adjusted to current snap-per-beat setting. - Fixed broken initial buffering that was randomly crippling those audio clips that fit integrally in cached and while on playback. - Fix initialization of multiple instances of DSSI plugins which implement run_multiple_synths (eg. fluidsynth-dssi), preventing an instant crash on activation. - Exclude deprecated VST elements from compilation. - Export tracks dialog has new punch in/out range option. - Somehow realized that looping and punch-recording are two mutually exclusive states, at least until loop recording (ie. takes) gets real. - Fixed bug #2249291 - Crash on tempo change; affecting the WSOLA based time-stretching on all non-stereo audio clips. - Incomplete audio peaks were being cached prematurely, fixed. - Make way for paste/dropping items from the system clipboard over the main track view. Cut/Copy/Paste/Delete of file items have now this workaround fixed, wrt. Files widget keyboard shortcuts, respectively. - Clip gain/volume propriety is now in place and reflected in audio clip waveform drawing in particular. - A new hideous progress bar is now lurking in the main status line, as found convenient to display progress of the also new clip tools (normalize, export, etc.). - Clip normalize tool is now available (Edit/Clip/Normalise). - Audio and MIDI clip file export is now available as a tool (see Edit/Clip/Export...). - Punch in/out (range) recording is now in experimental shape, with minimal settings and functionality, already accessible through the main menus, transport toolbars and visible on main tracks view and MIDI editors as magenta colored line markers. - External MIDI control events for channel volume (7) and channel panning (10) are now handled properly through session tracks. - Session file templates make its debut with new usability option, on whether new sessions are created based on existing template file (see View/Options.../Display/Session/New session template; nb. session templates are just regular session files but loaded and saved with no media content (no clips nor files). - Grayed/disabled palette color group fix for dark color themes. - Implicit attempt to flush all pending notes for some, if not most plugin instruments (eg. VSTi), on playback stop. - Fait-divers: desktop menu file touched to openSUSE conventions. - Internal refactoring alert: Session and Options instances are now being redesigned as singletons, preparing to get out of the way from the master GUI/MainForm instance. - Clip drawing methods refactored so let the fade-in/out handles get seen with transparency over the clip graphics content. - Reset and continue looping even still when continue past end transport option is not set and playback is rolling. Hope it makes through a Happy New Year with flying colors ;) Cheers && Enjoy! -- rncbc aka Rui Nuno Capela rncbc(a)rncbc.org

15 years, 10 months

Small audio app's, examples with GUI toolkit 'SDL-widgets'

by W.Boeke

Hi, As you may know there exists a cross-platform graphics library called SDL. It is mainly used for games, but it is excellent for normal app's also. Some time ago I wrote a GUI toolkit on top of SDL, called SDL-widgets. It is far from complete, because I focussed on 2 example audio applications, that might also be of interest for visitors of this newsgroup. The first example app is called make-waves. It can: - draw waveforms to the screen, modulate them by each other, you can listen to the result, - draw a physical model of a string or a spring that you can listen to and animate with the mouse, - draw and edit the harmonic spectrum of a sound, - display the frequency curve of digital filters, that you also can plug in yourself. The 2nd example app, wav2spectrum, can read a wave file and perform FFT analysis on it. You can scroll through the cached waveform chunks and FFT spectra easily. I tried to document the toolkit and the examples fairly well, so maybe they have some use for others as well. You can get it from: http://members.chello.nl/w.boeke/SDL-widgets/index.html Kind regards, Wouter Boeke

15 years, 11 months

LAC2009: Holiday time = Paper time!

by Frank Neumann

Hi, this mail is a short reminder that the LAC2009(1) Call for Papers is currently active and awaiting your papers at (2). The paper submission period ends on Thursday, January 15, 2009, 24:00 UTC so use the (hopefully) free time of the Christmas holidays to get your paper into shape and upload it in time! Hope to see you there, Frank, on behalf of the LAC2009 organization team (1) The LAC (Linux Audio Conference) is an annual event where developers, users and composers from all around the world come together for 4 days to present current developments, new compositions and other news to the public, listen to concerts, and generally have a good time together. The LAC2009 is taking place at the Casa della Musica in Parma, Italy, from April 16th to 19th, 2009. The conference homepage is at http://lac.linuxaudio.org/2009/. (2) Paper submission information: http://lac.linuxaudio.org/2009/call-for-papers/ Paper submission upload form: http://lac.linuxaudio.org/2009/openconf/openconf.php

15 years, 11 months

horgand-dssi-1.14.2 Released

by Josep Andreu

Hi This is the synthesizer engine of horgand released as dssi plugin, including 28 banks of 32 sounds each one. Sound edtion is not allowed, is only for use as sound font in your favorite sequencer. Anyway you can create new sounds with the standalone horgand. Thanks to all the dssi plugin authors, without their works would have never been able to do this. Take a look in: http://horgand.berlios.de/horgand-dssi.png and the tarball in the project page: http://horgand.berlios.de/ Comments on LAU are welcome. Josep -- Josep Andreu <holborn(a)telefonica.net>

15 years, 11 months

dssi-vst 0.8 available

by Chris Cannam

The 0.8 release of dssi-vst is now available. dssi-vst is an adapter that allows users of Linux audio software to take VST and VSTi audio effects and instrument plugins compiled for Windows, and load them into native LADSPA or DSSI plugin hosts. dssi-vst can also be used to run 32-bit Windows VST plugins in a 64-bit Linux host. http://www.breakfastquay.com/dssi-vst/ The main change in version 0.8 is to make building dssi-vst on 64-bit systems much simpler. Chris

15 years, 11 months

Sonic Annotator - a batch utility for audio feature extraction

by Chris Cannam

Sonic Annotator is a utility program for batch feature extraction from audio files. It runs Vamp audio analysis plugins on audio files and can write the result features in a selection of formats, in particular as RDF using the Audio Features and Event ontologies. A somewhat experimental first public release (0.1) is now available. For more details and for downloads, please see http://www.omras2.org/SonicAnnotator Sonic Annotator was developed at the Centre for Digital Music, Queen Mary, University of London. It was funded by the EPSRC through the OMRAS2 project and is Free Software published under the GNU General Public License. Chris

15 years, 11 months

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Linux-audio-announce December 2008